Kakurenbo

Both involve chasing and killing spirits. Both have characters who played a game and are sent to another dimension who look for their loves. Both are suspenseful and involve horror. 

Rumors about a mysterious place where children play and disappear. Both are short 20 minute horror anime with some psychological aspects. Kakurenbo is heavier on the psychological aspects while Higurashi focuses more on the horror and mystery aspects. 

Yami Shibai is a short series with 3 seasons as of now and Kakurenbo is a movie but both have unique animation and are creepy horror that give the same dreading feel.  

Both are short films set in a city with (apparently) no adults, in which demons use children for the same general purpose; the design/feel of the cities - and to a lesser extent, the organic/machine hybridization of the monsters - is similar. Water Brain is much gentler and ends on a much more upbeat note. 

Both have forbidden place where children play and disappear, characters who try to find friend, mystery aspects, music and animation style... If you liked "Kakurenbo" then you then you might like "Hashi no Mukou." 

Both series have a serious haunting mood coming from the hunter and the hunted setting. Kakurenbo's monsters also resemble some of the ones in Gantz. Give the kids in Kakurenbo guns and add some gore and you basically got the same thing. 

A group of young protagonists get caught up in an extended chase sequence, with demonic foes and an overarching mystery behind it all. 

way of drawing have much in common. both are a kind of town's legends. 

Denno Coil and Kakurenbo focus on a group of children and their efforts to unravel the truth behind urban legends. Both take place in worlds filled with bizarre events with the idea of playing a game being present. Denno Coil has plenty of light hearted moments, though, while Kakurenbo is considerably darker, stranger, and downward tragic.